Comms Connect 2013: first speakers announced

Organisers of the upcoming Comms Connect 2013 conference in Melbourne say they have received a fabulous response to the call for papers. Here are just a few of the confirmed speakers and topics:

• Tasso Mangos (Chief Technology Officer, NEC Australia) - ‘Radio is dead, long live radio’
• Inspector (Ret) Lance Valcour OOM (Executive Director, Canadian Interoperability Technology Interest Group) - Public Safety Interoperability: An international perspective
• Mohd Fauzi Bin Abdul Hamid  (Manager, Excellence Centre, Planning & Development Malaysian Airports) - ‘Moving from analog to digital radio’
• Greg Boumeester (Public safety solutions expert, Motorola Solutions) - ‘LTE and its role within Australia’s public safety industry’
• Sameer Kaul and Moti Shalev (Axell Wireless) - ‘Connecting the Brisbane Airport Link: providing in-building cellular and public safety wireless coverage in Australia’s longest tunnel’
• Ben Pearce (Director, Codan Radio) - ‘P25 network extension: how HF can integrate into the P25 interfaces’
• Hanu Aronsson (Chief Technology Officer, Portalify) - ‘Data and apps on narrowband radio networks: getting more out of your network’
• Henrik Jacobsen (Managing Director, Applied Satellite Technology Australia Pty Ltd) - ‘Extending your Close User Group to the world’

The special keynote address will be given by by Len Ricardo, Operations Manager at NASA’s Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex , who’ll speak about the special challenges of communicating over distances of millions of kilometres through deep space. This should be a mind-expanding presentation for everyone in the 'terrestrial' radio industry.

Pre-conference training workshops take place on 20 November. With numbers strictly limited, the organisers are advising delegates to book at the time of registering for the conference and dinner, if attending, so as not to be disappointed. This year’s event will see six all-new training workshops:

• Infrastructure and towers
• Advanced radio over IP
• In-building distributed antenna systems (DAS)
• TETRA network and design
• Wireless broadband for critical communications
• Implementing a digital radio system

The conference and exhibition will run over two days, 21-22 November. Almost 100 exhibitors will represent the very best technologies and solutions from Australia and the rest of the world. The world-class line-up of speakers, both local and international, will discuss technology developments, from apps to professional LTE and case studies in mining, energy, transport and more.

Full conference and training workshop details will be published online in early August, and at the same time registration for all sessions with be opened. Registration for the exhibition is open already.